Incentive regulation and performance measurement of the Portuguese solid waste management services

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 188-196

  Marques, Rui Cunha ^a   Simões, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Efficiency; Portugal; Regulation; Solid waste services; Wmr 1354 1

Indexed keywords

DEA MODELS; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENTS; HIGH POTENTIALS; INCENTIVE REGULATIONS; MARKET FAILURES; MARKET STRUCTURES; NON-PARAMETRIC TECHNIQUES; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; PERFORMANCE COMPARISONS; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; PORTUGAL; PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS; REGULATION; REGULATORY MODELS; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENTS; SOLID WASTE SERVICES; WMR 1354-1;

BENCHMARKING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PUBLIC UTILITIES; RECYCLING; SOLID WASTES;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

BENCHMARKING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; SOLID WASTE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

PORTUGAL; PUBLIC SECTOR; REFUSE DISPOSAL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 61749092627     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: 10963669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X08095025     Document Type: Article

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